escal/setup/ give me a blank page or a server path error

[rloconne]

I am trying to set up ES Calendar for the first time and when I go to the address listed in the instructions (http://www.yourdomain.com/escal/setup, or in my case http://www.mse.ncsu.edu/escal/setup/ I get either a blank page or a redirect to http://www.mse.ncsu.edu/escal/setup/install.php, where I see the following message:

Server Path Error.
Please run the Setup and Configuration Manager to correct this problem.

Where is the Setup and Configuration Manager? What should I do to correct this?

I can see http://www.mse.ncsu.edu/escal/demo.php.

Thanks,
Rebecca

[Brian]

Please delete and re-upload the config.inc.php file and see if this helps.

[Brian]

And also, do the same for the showCalendar.php file.

[rloconne]

I reuploaded both files using the ziped copy of escal downloaded from the email link you sent me, and am back to looking at blank screens for both setup/index.php and setup/install.php.

[Brian]

What' s strange is that those paths are not even used at that point in the script. Can you PM me FTP access to your server so I can take a look?

[rloconne]

I can't think of a way to give you ftp access unless you have an NCSU user id, but I did finally remember to check http://webtest.mse.ncsu.edu/escal/setup/, where I can see actual error messages instead of just a blank screen and saw the following:


Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(../config.inc.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (.:/afs/eos.ncsu.edu/engrservers/www/mse/_include:/usr/share/pear) in /afs/eos.ncsu.edu/engrservers/www/mse/escal/setup/index.php on line 1

Warning: main(../config.inc.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /afs/eos.ncsu.edu/engrservers/www/mse/escal/setup/index.php on line 1

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '../config.inc.php' (include_path='.:/afs/eos.ncsu.edu/engrservers/www/mse/_include:/usr/share/pear') in /afs/eos.ncsu.edu/engrservers/www/mse/escal/setup/index.php on line 1

[Brian]

Can you ask your server admin about this? This is very common to do in programming and should not cause any errors. It seems that they have some very strict settings on the server preventing you from executing the script.

[rloconne]

I wrote to my system admin. and got the following response:

Sorry Rebecca - we have to maintain the open_basedir restriction for sitewide security security reasons. Unless you can find a version that can operate with those restrictions - you won't be able to install this tool.

Is there a way to work around this or am I just out of luck?

[Brian]

I did a little research on this and would like to try the following...

Try editing the index.php file in the events directory and look at the top of the file for:

$serverPath="../";
require ("../config.inc.php");

Change these to:

$serverPath="/../";
require ("/../config.inc.php");

[notice the extra / before the ..]

Does this help any?

[rloconne]

That didn't make any difference. I also tried moving all of the php files (changing the names where there would have been a duplication) and updating all of the require()s, but this just resulted in a Server Path Error.

[Brian]

Sending you a PM...

[rloconne]

Um...what is a PM and how would I be receiving it?

[Brian]

Sorry, that's a Private Message.